I KNOW I was not alone at my sense of loss at the pending closure of TCW. In the comments below Kathy’s article last week, I wrote ‘So sorry to hear that, Kathy. You have been the absolute go to for publishing all our open letters to politicians and regulators about the recklessness of gene-based vaccines for children for a condition that doesn’t affect them.’ Needless to say, Kathy replied with an offer to publish more on the AstraZeneca files, so here I go.
My wake-up call on the reckless disregard for children came in February 2021 when I was watching the early evening BBC News. A researcher from Oxford University was inviting children aged 6-17 to join a trial of AstraZeneca vaccine, at a time when we had no medium-term, let alone long-term, safety data for adults and in the clear knowledge that children were minimally impacted. My email to Professor Andrew Pollard, who was leading the trial in Oxford, received a surprisingly prompt reply within ten minutes, in effect agreeing they did not know if the vaccine was safe for children, hence the trial. He also pointed out that other manufacturers were also doing trials in children, as if that made it okay.
As someone who has led a number of clinical trials in children, I am well aware of, and indeed was required to complete training in, Research Governance. The requirements of the Helsinki Declaration and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are very clear that no research can be carried out on children (or indeed on adults who lack the capacity to give their informed consent) unless there is a clear possibility of benefit to the child.
The irony of this trial was that only a week or two before the Oxford children’s trial began recruiting had been the first death of a healthy young adult, a clinical psychologist who took the vaccine because he was about to start working at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. Stephen Wright suffered a major stroke due to thrombosis in the cerebral venous system. Deaths the following month in Holland and Denmark lead to suspension of the AZ vaccine and an urgent investigation there. The condition of Vaccine Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopaenia (VITT) was described and AZ was withdrawn for under-50s in most countries in Europe. Here we were told the clots could be coincidental and no action would be taken unless a larger signal was seen. The children’s trial was initially stopped, but was restarted a few weeks laterafterAZ had been withdrawn in the UK for under-40s.
The full correspondence has been published on the HART website.
It was also about this time that a clear mission creep began to appear in the press. In October 2020, Kate Bingham, the Vaccine Tsar, said: ‘There’s going to be no vaccination of people under 18. It’s an adult-only vaccine, for people over 50, focusing on health workers and care home workers and the vulnerable.’ This was confirmed in November 2020 by Health Secretary Matt Hancock: ‘This is an adult vaccine for the adult population.’
But in February 2021, SAGE member Professor John Edmunds was telling Andrew Marr on the BBC that ‘we can all spread the virus, and so until we’ve all been vaccinated and I include children here, then there is going to be a significant risk of a resurgence . . . I think there’s an argument for turning to children as fast as we can’.In other words, he was already suggesting a policy which contravened the requirement for a direct benefit to the child, written into international law.
Alerted to the pending approval of Pfizer BioNTech for children, I got together a group of health professionals and academics, and we wrote to the MHRA a fully referenced letter in May 2021 outlining our safety and ethical concerns. This letter was published by the Daily Telegraph with a follow-up article the next day, but surprisingly all my subsequent emails went unanswered. If was only two years later that I learned the Editor of the Telegraph had been approached by the press officer for the MHRA and told that if they published more articles critical of the vaccines, they would lose their press conference pass (they had already published in March 2021 details of the deaths in Europe from VITT described above). And of course our subsequent letter in June 2021 to Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer, resulted in someone from his department sending it and all our names to the Counter Disinformation Unit.
Since that time, all our open letters have been published on TCW, thanks to Kathy. Here are a few examples:
Our constellation of concerns over vaccine for children Oct 2021
Deafening silence of health watchdogs over danger of child jabs Nov 2021
The urgent child vaccine truths the watchdogs won’t listen to Mar 2022
Doctors’ urgent warnings ignored as monstrous MHRA authorises unnecessary Covid vaccine for infants Dec 2022
We need an independent review of Covid vaccine safety now, say doctors Jan 2023
Giving children covid vaccines is unethical and reckless – our letter to pharmacy chiefs Mar 2024
Covid vaccine warning to the latest Health Secretary Aug 2024
In the UK in 2022, HART group worked with Cheryl Grainger and PJHLaw in a FoI request for all the AstraZeneca data, as described in an article for ssathere. Perhaps not surprisingly, there was a belated refusal, followed by a failed appeal, followed by a complaint to the Information Commissioner.
Meanwhile, the Vaccine Injured & Bereaved UK (VIBUK) group began pursuing a legal case against AstraZeneca. Those injured or bereaved as a result of VITT are suing AZ for damages.
While our case to the Information Commissioner ultimately yielded nothing, VIBUK’s legal team are gradually obtaining more information from depositions into court. In the latest update on their CrowdJustice funding page, July 6, 2026, they report that their legal team are dissecting no fewer than 90,000 documents supplied by AstraZeneca. These include ‘internal communications between key players in AstraZeneca from September 2020 until June 2021 and should provide important insights into what AstraZeneca knew about the side effects caused by their vaccine and when this information was known to them’.
Be assured this information will reach the public sooner or later. I remind readers that in 2020, a senior AstraZeneca executive, when justifying the government indemnity for their vaccine, said ‘This is a unique situation where we as a company simply cannot take the risk if in . . . four years the vaccine is showing side effects.’
Finally, a huge thank you to Kathy and her team for going fearlessly where many even in the ‘alternative’ media were reluctant to tread.
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“….In October 2020, Kate Bingham, the Vaccine Tsar, said: ‘There’s going to be no vaccination of people under 18. It’s an adult-only vaccine, for people over 50, focusing on health workers and care home workers and the vulnerable.’….”
Also in October 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration came out in the U.S. Drs. Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford), Martin Kulldorff (Harvard), and Senetra Gupta (Oxford) put forth a similar idea - Protect the vulnerable and elderly because the virus was not going to be stopped and was not a big threat to healthy adults or children. The great majority did not listen.
There was a lot of information here in the U.S. that sent up so many red flags about not taking any of the jabs. But the media did its usual shoddy reporting and seemed more interested in hysteria and the clicks it would bring than asking questions that could have prevented all of this. Between the fear that engendered and governmental threats to medical licenses of physicians who questioned the “accepted protocol”, it was a perfect storm for exactly what happened.
I think you’re correct that we’ll find out even more than we currently know about this sordid ordeal but my question is - Will anyone really be held accountable for it? I have my doubts on that.
Thanks for the excellent and brave work Ros that you and your fellow C19 vaccine sceptics have and continue to do. It has surely saved many lives as it has emboldened other C19 sceptics to spread the word to protect others. The whole C19 scam has yet to be properly “holed below the waterline” thanks to the complicit media, foreign billionaires with delusions of grandeur, and our corrupt and indifferent political system. History will much kinder to you, your collaborators and Kathy Gyngell who have brought vital information and given hope to many under siege by our eugenicist political culture!
“….In October 2020, Kate Bingham, the Vaccine Tsar, said: ‘There’s going to be no vaccination of people under 18. It’s an adult-only vaccine, for people over 50, focusing on health workers and care home workers and the vulnerable.’….”
Also in October 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration came out in the U.S. Drs. Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford), Martin Kulldorff (Harvard), and Senetra Gupta (Oxford) put forth a similar idea - Protect the vulnerable and elderly because the virus was not going to be stopped and was not a big threat to healthy adults or children. The great majority did not listen.
There was a lot of information here in the U.S. that sent up so many red flags about not taking any of the jabs. But the media did its usual shoddy reporting and seemed more interested in hysteria and the clicks it would bring than asking questions that could have prevented all of this. Between the fear that engendered and governmental threats to medical licenses of physicians who questioned the “accepted protocol”, it was a perfect storm for exactly what happened.
I think you’re correct that we’ll find out even more than we currently know about this sordid ordeal but my question is - Will anyone really be held accountable for it? I have my doubts on that.
Thanks for the excellent and brave work Ros that you and your fellow C19 vaccine sceptics have and continue to do. It has surely saved many lives as it has emboldened other C19 sceptics to spread the word to protect others. The whole C19 scam has yet to be properly “holed below the waterline” thanks to the complicit media, foreign billionaires with delusions of grandeur, and our corrupt and indifferent political system. History will much kinder to you, your collaborators and Kathy Gyngell who have brought vital information and given hope to many under siege by our eugenicist political culture!